Drugs Coming Through in the Mail

Cybitech · Post by **Cybitech** » 09 May 2020, 19:36

Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?

ted_e_bear · Post by **ted_e_bear** » 09 May 2020, 21:41

Cybitech wrote:Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?

Try asking your manager

Celgar · Post by **Celgar** » 10 May 2020, 00:06

DOM contacts the local plod. They come and pick it up and pay a visit to the recipient. It's only happened once in our DO in the twenty years I have been there and was on my walk. We never found out if it was weed or not but there was an extremely strong scent emanating from the parcel.

Post by **SpacePhoenix** » 10 May 2020, 01:17

Celgar wrote:DOM contacts the local plod. They come and pick it up and pay a visit to the recipient. It's only happened once in our DO in the twenty years I have been there and was on my walk. We never found out if it was weed or not but there was an extremely strong scent emanating from the parcel.

I've been told that if it's been sent as an SD that even plod aren't allowed to intercept it, it has to be delivered

Post by **Munchboii** » 10 May 2020, 09:42

In my office if it's a SD we ring the police and they come down and open the package. In the past in the next steps they have done a couple of different things.

1. They get a postie to deliver it and then when the postie leaves and it's been signed for they grab the person and arrest them.

2. The manager goes out and note leaves the SD. Then the police wait in the office until the person comes in to pick it up. Then once they sign for it on the counter they police ambush them through a side door

Post by **stodgy88** » 10 May 2020, 09:50

police ambush them through a side door ,sounds like a scene from Miami vice .

Post by **chocolatesaltyballs** » 10 May 2020, 14:31

Munchboii wrote: 1. They get a postie to deliver it and then when the postie leaves and it's been signed for they grab the person and arrest them.

Sounds like a good way to get a postie killed, no chance I'd be doing that.

Post by **priority102** » 10 May 2020, 16:08

We had one recently, SD. As above, DOM contacted Plod who came (quite promptly), examined it before taking it away.

Post by **postman1979** » 10 May 2020, 17:18

In our MC these packets including SD items are held in a central location within the MC the police attend at least once a week and examine each packet. The serial number of the SD items are entered in a book within the locker along with the address and return address if it has one, (most don't for some reason). The ones they suspect contain drugs namely cannabis they complete the paperwork for each items and then take them away or ask the delivery office to do a controlled delivery either by a postman delivery the item or asking them to visit the callers office to collect the item.
It has been known for the police to send the addressee a letter asking them to collect their packet from a named police station. I understand that very few take up the offer for some reason.

Acca Dacca · Post by **Acca Dacca** » 10 May 2020, 19:24

Anyone can send anything to any address they choose

Surely it’s the person sending it the police need to question.

Post by **woody38** » 10 May 2020, 19:30

Cybitech wrote:Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?

With all that’s happening if people want to smoke a bit of weed what harm are they doing, if it’s crack or heron then yes report it but not weed, after all most of us have tried it at least once in there life.

Post by **postman1979** » 10 May 2020, 19:37

woody38 wrote:
Cybitech wrote:Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?
With all that’s happening if people want to smoke a bit of weed what harm are they doing, if it’s crack or heron then yes report it but not weed, after all most of us have tried it at least once in there life.

Yes tried it and it did nothing for me, but most posties will not want to fall foul of the offence of aiding and abetting the supply of a prohibited drug by delivering something you know or reasonably suspect to be a controlled prohibited drug.

Post by **woody38** » 10 May 2020, 19:55

postman1979 wrote:
woody38 wrote:
Cybitech wrote:Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?
With all that’s happening if people want to smoke a bit of weed what harm are they doing, if it’s crack or heron then yes report it but not weed, after all most of us have tried it at least once in there life.
Yes tried it and it did nothing for me, but most posties will not want to fall foul of the offence of aiding and abetting the supply of a prohibited drug by delivering something you know or reasonably suspect to be a controlled prohibited drug.

I must be a baddie but I think if they want to take drugs & it doesn’t interfere with me I just deliver it, sometimes u have to turn a blind eye.

Post by **postman1979** » 10 May 2020, 19:58

woody38 wrote:
postman1979 wrote:
woody38 wrote:
Cybitech wrote:Has anyone else noticed a rise in the amount of people getting cannabis in the post ? Especially since this lockdown has started.

Can anyone point me in the direction of official guidance on the procedures to follow if you suspect an item may contain cannabis ?
With all that’s happening if people want to smoke a bit of weed what harm are they doing, if it’s crack or heron then yes report it but not weed, after all most of us have tried it at least once in there life.
Yes tried it and it did nothing for me, but most posties will not want to fall foul of the offence of aiding and abetting the supply of a prohibited drug by delivering something you know or reasonably suspect to be a controlled prohibited drug.
I must be a baddie but I think if they want to take drugs & it doesn’t interfere with me I just deliver it, sometimes u have to turn a blind eye.

I would quite like to see that used as a defence by a solicitor in court.

Cybitech · Post by **Cybitech** » 10 May 2020, 20:15

We must have had 9 or 10 incidents over the past 3 weeks, mostly with various strains of cannabis. Having never been a smoker even, i can't see the appeal in the stuff, it bloody stinks. I'd say if you put all of the packages that we've seen together, they'd be about 2kg of it.